Hubby Hubby! Q news for mid-October 2009

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NEWS for week of 15 October 2009
from B.A.R.
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Leather family mourns
'Mister Marcus'

Mourners from San Francisco and beyond have paused to pay their respects to Marcus Hernandez, the Bay Area Reporter's longtime leather columnist ...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4256
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National Equality March
draws 100,000 to DC

About 100,000 LGBT people and their supporters marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to a rally on the west lawn of the Capitol Sunday, October 11. The National Equality ...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4270
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Nothing new in
Obama's HRC speech

The content of President Barack Obama's speech to an audience of LGBTs and supporters on the eve of the National Equality March offered nothing new. He reiterated hi...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4258
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Gov signs Milk, marriage bills

In a surprise for supporters of the late San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger late Sunday signed a bill that will designate May 22 â€...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4259
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HISTORY--
With Castro unscathed, LGBTs lent a hand in '89 quake relief

When the shaking from the magnitude 7.0 Loma Prieta earthquake stopped shortly after 5:04 p.m. Tuesday, October 17, 1989, Castro residents emerged onto the streets lar...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4260
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Rep. Frank instructs gay activists
to target 'Blue Dog' Dems

Congressman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) swung through the Bay Area last weekend and had one singular message for LGBT activists in the Golden State: pro-gay right...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4261
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Coming Out Day comes to Alameda [ in the East Bay]

Cindy Acker, right, sings with the newly formed Alameda Interfaith Choir during a performance on National Coming Out Day, Sunday, October 11 in the city of Alameda. ...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4262
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Gay protesters clash
with Buju Banton fans

Gay protesters and reggae music lovers clashed outside of an Inner Richmond club Monday, October 12 where controversial singer Buju Banton performed ...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4263
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Remembering Matthew Shepard

A small vigil was held in the Castro Monday, October 12 to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming college student who was beat...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4271
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Breaking news: Federal
Prop 8 case heads to 2010 trial

A federal court judge in San Francisco Wednesday, October 14 dismissed an anti-gay group's request that a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Califo...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4275
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B.A.R. leather columnist Marcus Hernandez dies

Marcus Hernandez, who served as the Bay Area Reporter's longtime leather columnist, died Thursday, October 8 at Pacifica Nursing and Rehab Center in Pacifica. ...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4254
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East Bay AIDS doctor Robert Scott dies

Dr. Robert Scott, a leading pioneer in HIV/AIDS treatment in the East Bay and in Zimbabwe, Africa, died Thursday, October 8 at Alta Bates-Summit Medical Center in Oakl...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4273
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Online extra: Obama's ambassadorial appointment
takes count to nearly 100

Just three days away from a national LGBT march on Washington, President Barack Obama on Wednesday night issued a statement announcing the nomination of an openly ga...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4253
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Online Extra: Political Notes:
Vallejo's gay ex-mayor behind
LGBT rights push in Miami Beach

The seven-member city commission in Miami Beach, Florida is expected to adopt a strengthened pro-LGBT human rights ordinance at its meeting Wednesday, October 14. Th...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4255
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Political Notebook:
Judicial aide runs for judge

Crime novelist Michael Nava, an openly gay staff attorney for California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno, has spent the last four years patiently w...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4272
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News in brief: Ben & Jerry's co-founder comes to SF

Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, will be in San Francisco Friday, October 16, scooping up the company's
newly renamed "Hubby Hubby" flavor
in honor ...
http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4266


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